From a good not great source that says he talked to a great BMD source-
1. Tom Herman is a goner
2. Nothing has changed on our end re: Urban since the Thamel article. Basically, of course there’s a chance we could get played but nothing has been derailed in the timeline.
The noise is slowly starting to get a little louder now that we are past Christmas. There’s still simply not much to talk about right now though. These are the timeline dates to watch:
NSD 1
Bowl Game
End of tOSU’s season.
NSD 2
I think a lot of people are going to freak out if Herman isn’t fired after the bowl game. I’ve been told repeatedly he won’t be fired until we have our next guy tee’d up. I interpret that as us not being interested in a formal coaching search.
I think that’s us thinking strategically and trying to keep the noise under control. I’m kind of curious to see if CDC would go against that strategy out of respect for Herman and his future opportunities.
Here's some christmas cheer. The rumors floating around that UM definitively told us no are from the Ohio State side. The claim is that UM himself told someone he had told us its not happening bc he cant get any of his mafia to go with him.
Its absolutely not true. We are in the same spot in the process as we have been.
I haven’t heard anything different and am still holding to the same timeline. A guy I wouldn’t expect to know much claims UM shut down the process with us yesterday and then this morning a guy on obloods posted the same thing. I’ve already had two texts from friends asking what happened, so I’m expecting a lot of negative energy today.
If UM really does tell us to kick rocks I will know shortly. We already dropped the money hammer on him but I’m sure he knows he can squeeze us for more.
That was me. I was told UM got worn out with the process. I never was able to get any clarification on that. However, after that, I was told not only did we get a negotiated offer to him, but that he was pleased with it.
We had been talking with him since losing the OU game. For all I know he wanted to be finished with negotiations at a certain point and then things leaked and it messed up his plans.
I hope the day time dildo crew takes their sde elsewhere. It’s BDE time. There’s been countless chances now to put the UM stuff to rest. The 9.95ers know jack shit. There was full on celebration followed by cold dead silence and it remains that way. I’m sure it will stay that way until the die is cast.
The only thing Ive heard consistently referenced is Herman is "immature". Anything more than that would be my own speculation, but combine it with other stories Ive heard about Herman (mainly to do with drinking and banging people other than his wife) and you can probably get an accurate picture.
I know a lot of people that post on there. One of our current bor members posts on there a decent amount and a couple former ones do as well. Its almost always related to admin stuff but I still think its interesting.